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Journey decisions: extendable ending, four crossings, biome hazards; server cost measured

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@@ -253,7 +253,34 @@ A server today runs one island. Options:
The most freedom, and the most work and CPU. The most freedom, and the most work and CPU.
- **Party leader:** whoever goes through brings the others with a vote. - **Party leader:** whoever goes through brings the others with a vote.
### Questions for you ### Decisions (Paul, Nov 2026)
- **Extendable, not finished:** the Ember has a last boss, and after it you
keep playing. The chain is built so more worldlets (and crossings) can be
added after the Ember later: each worldlet names the next, nothing assumes
the Ember is the end.
- **The crossings:** tunnel, sail, climb, burrow, in that order.
- **Harder by biome, not just by numbers:** each worldlet has its own,
stronger animals and its own hazards. The Marsh, for one: mosquitoes whose
bites can make you sick, and bog, mist and the like. Others in the same
spirit per biome (to design with each worldlet).
- **Multiplayer:** leaning to *spread out* (each player goes where they
like), if a server can run several worldlets at once. A measurement of
today's server, in the next section, says whether it can.
### Server cost, measured (0.3.1)
One worldlet, a dedicated server on the M5 Pro, never pausing: about
**12% of one CPU core and 270 MB of memory**, with nobody on. Players add
creatures, weather and pickups around them. So with *spread out*, the worst
case of 8 players in all 5 worldlets is about five of today's servers in
one process: roughly 1.4 GB and a little over half a core before players,
and worldlets with nobody in them stand still and cost next to nothing.
Comfortable on the home Mac; a small cloud server (2 GB) would be tight.
### Questions still open
1. **Multiplayer:** spread out (confirm, now the cost is known), or everyone
together after all?
### (Answered) questions
1. **The ending:** a real ending at the Ember (light the beacon, a last 1. **The ending:** a real ending at the Ember (light the beacon, a last
boss, the credits) or open-ended (the journey is the goal, keep living)? boss, the credits) or open-ended (the journey is the goal, keep living)?
2. **The crossings:** do the four above fit (tunnel, sail, climb, burrow), 2. **The crossings:** do the four above fit (tunnel, sail, climb, burrow),